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[DOSGamar]

i think we should switch to bittorrent

[Tom Henrik]

I'm no techie, so I have no opinion in the matter.

[Burger Meister]

Direct Connect, Bittorent leads to people being greedy and not sharing. Also the speeds are usually much slower. I'd say use direct connect for main, offer bittorent as secondary.

[Marciano155]

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Direct Connect, Bittorent leads to people being greedy and not sharing. Also the speeds are usually much slower. I'd say use direct connect for main, offer bittorent as secondary.
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I think the same, Direct download is better

[Eagle of Fire]

Do you think we should use p2p[/b]

There is really no option on the poll which allow me to vote according to my own oppinion... It's like saying "do you want ketchup or ketchup with that?"...

I don't think it's a good idea.

[A. J. Raffles]

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There is really no option on the poll which allow me to vote according to my own oppinion... It's like saying "do you want ketchup or ketchup with that?"...[/b]

I agree with that. When you're asking a yes/no question in a poll, you need to include a 'no' option, otherwise it could be seen as deliberately misleading or even manipulative.:not_ok:

As for the actual question, I wouldn't trust either, to be honest.

[verdistas]

I like and use Emule, it´s the best to use to download, legal stuff

[ReamusLQ]

BitTorrent requires that everyone be sharing. Personally, when I use BitTorrent I turn it off as soon as I get the file I want to download.

Also, most of the games on this site aren't very large, so direct download doesn't take very long in the first place.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Reamus, the point is:
We could use P2P to distribute larger files, for example while a CD-Rip version of a game would be available for direct download from Abandonia, a full archive (or maybe an ISO) could be distributed by P2P.

BitTorrent seems the most controllable one (don't know about DC, really), as BT services require a centralized "tracker".
In other words, if we'd for some reason want to stop a given game being distributed, we'd just remove that torrent from the tracker.
BT is also pretty fast, and the download rates in it are very much determined by how much one is uploading.

[Burger Meister]

I guess it could also save bandwidth, right?

Some places require you to have a 1/1 share ratio which means if you download 500mb, you must give back 500mb to the community. I don't know if everyone thinks thats a good idea, but I do...